Stay of execution for Bowes Southgate Green School

Enfield Learning Trust has agreed to continue taking reception pupils at Bowes Southgate Green School for at least one more year.

According to a report in the Enfield Independent, the academy chain's chief executive wrote to parents last week to inform them that the school, in Wilmer Way, will now take reception pupils for the year starting September 2020. Previously the Trust had said that 2019 would be the last year it would do so.

The longer-term outlook, however, remains unclear because of uncertainties about leasing accommodation from Broomfield School (the owners of the Wilmer Way site) and the possible revival of an earlier plan to build a new primary school in the Bourne, Southgate.

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